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Why General Electric Deserves a Lump of Coal for Christmas

Expert BlogHan Chen
General Electric (GE) deserves a lump of coal for Christmas. Why? GE claims that their coal plants are the solution to energy poverty. But the reality is, the world doesn’t need GE’s dirty, expensive coal plants. And it shouldn’t listen…

Climate Change Literature that Made Waves in 2019

Expert BlogRob Moore
As the planet heated up to record breaking levels, the seas continued to rise, and wildfires, storms, floods, or other manifestations of climate change made headlines every single day, the stream of climate change literature turned into a deluge. This…

New Federal Rule Undermine Increases Ohio’s Energy Costs

Press ReleaseOhio
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today imposed rules on the 13-state PJM region that will reward fossil fuel generators with billions of dollars in unnecessary payments from consumers. The order could prevent power plants supported by state policies from competing…

New Federal Rule Undermines Illinois’ Clean Energy, Increases Costs

Press ReleaseIllinois
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today imposed rules on the country’s largest wholesale electricity market, which includes Northern Illinois, that will reward fossil fuel generators with billions of dollars in unnecessary payments from electricity customers. The order could prevent power…

FERC Undermines Clean Energy, Increases Costs

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will impose rules on the 13-state PJM region, which runs from North Carolina through parts of Illinois, that could force customers to pay billions of dollars more to gas and coal power plants.

USMCA Is a Huge Missed Opportunity to Act on Climate

Expert BlogAmanda Maxwell, Dan West
The House of Representatives passed the new version of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which unfortunately fails to address climate change and meet baseline environmental criteria to protect the environment. With it, we have missed a critical opportunity…

Trade and Climate Protection Must Go Hand-in-Hand

Press ReleaseUnited States, Mexico, Canada
The House of Representatives passed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a trade accord that failed to address the urgency of combating dangerous climate change.

In 2019, Kicking Biomass Out of the Clean Energy Club

Expert BlogUnited States, InternationalSasha Stashwick

Scientists tell us the climate crisis demands we act now and eliminate carbon emissions within 30 years. Given this reality, burning forest biomass for electricity has no role to play as we phase out our reliance on fossil fuels. It…